Bill Blinks: The White House, apparently taking to heart a presidential advisory committee’s recommendation to abandon export controls on Net-related encryption software, seems poised to lift most export restrictions on communications-related encryption. This comes a year after VP Al Gore announced the first relaxation of export controls. (New York Times, 9/14/99)* Nortel Networks becomes the first company to sign a deal with the FBI to provide wiretapping software to the telecom industry. (Congress allotted $500 million for this stuff back in 1994.) (NY Times, 9/15/99)* Bugspotter Georgi Guninski nails another Hotmail bug. Turns out that Hotmail allows Web-page embedded Javascript to run automatically, giving unscrupulous types the ability to wreak havoc on the unwary. Microsoft needs to fix the way Hotmail interprets the